Sassnitz

a city in the German Democratic Republic, on Rügen Island. Rostock is the nearest major city. Population, 13,500 (1970). Sassnitz has train ferry communication with Trelleborg in Sweden. It is a fishing port on the Baltic Sea and an important center for the fishing industry. Chalk is extracted and processed near Sassnitz.

We made four more stops on the way home - Tallinn, Gdynia, Karlskrona and Sassnitz, taking us to Estonia, Poland, Sweden and Germany respectively - before heading onto the 61-mile-long Kiel Canal and back home.

The ship, which has recently undergone a major refurbishment, sets sails from Dover on August 28 and makes seven ports of call: Mariehamn, on the remote Finnish island of Ahland' Helsinki' St Petersburg' Gydnia in Poland' Sassnitz on the German island of Ruegen' Copenhagen' and finally Oslo, before returning to Dover on September 10.

DAY 11 Docking in Sassnitz, on Germany's largest island Rugen, we decide it's time for an adventure and head off on a 50-minute train ride to the mainland to Stralsund, a UNESCO heritage site which turns out to be a bit like Tallinn before they smartened it all up.

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